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[Editor's note: I produced this mashup in real time for The Washington Post a couple weekend's ago when Hurricane Hanna blew into the DC area as a tropical storm. This mashup was the main graphic lead on the homepage for a couple hours. A week later, the Houston Chronicle pulled off a similar exercise for Gustov.]

My friend Curt has been encouraging me to create a mashup with radar, temperature, and other weather related features for the last few months. Come to find out Weather Underground now has these features on a Google Maps mashup! You can see Washington, DC in the screenshot below. Looks like airports get the “sunny” status icons where most other weather stations track temperature, some wind direction. There is a sidebar (not shown here) that lists all the stations alphabetically. When station names are mouseOver’d there the station will highlight on the map. When a storm passes thru, the map updates with the latest radar. Thanks Curt!